‘The Good Wife’ Recap, Season 5, Episode 11, ‘Goliath and David’

The last time we ran into “The Good Wife,” ethics girl Marilyn announced that she’s naming her baby Peter, and it’s after the father but she swears it’s not the governor. Eli asks Kalinda to look into it.

Tonight, we’re still at the Florrick/Agos newbie partnership’s Christmas party, which apparently carried on past New Year’s. A couple of singers come up to Alicia and Cary and want representation because their cover song was covered in a tv show.

FYI, does anyone remember a couple weeks ago when the judge called Alicia? What happened with that?

Back at Diane and Will’s, they are still talking about New York and Will now wants to take on a client in Los Angeles. But Diane gets in his way. Will offers to go up against Alicia in her copyright infringement case. Luckily, Alicia kind of knows the original artist. Alicia wants to settle but then Will shows up. Will decides to sue Alicia for $800,000 for their clients covering the original song.

Will is driving Alicia crazy on purpose. Luckily Cary steps up and gives Alicia some help and a pep talk. So she changes into a very short skirt, to throw Will off his game. Turns out, its the suit she wore when they first got together. It works, he’s completely distracted. The defense says it’s two artists covering the same song in the same way. The prosecutor says it’s theft of a song.

The judge says that it was theft but it was legal because the first cover didn’t have the correct copyright. Alicia and Cary says they aren’t going to let them win. They present the cover song as satire which means an automatic copyright applies. The experts fight back and forth. No one can agree.

The original rapper, Rebel King, gets on the stage to say that his original song was a cliche. So it’s a satire of a satire?

Kalinda is trying to track down Marilyn. Her policewoman lover, Jenna, shows up because she’s following Kalinda. Kalinda finds out that Marilyn left her reunion to meet a “Peter” at the Sheraton. The digital photos from that day are gone. Coincidence?

Eli confronts Marilyn directly. She says it’s not Peter the governor but still won’t name the father.

The new partner, Damian, is all chummy with Will. He promises he can get Will the votes to get his LA pass. Diane fights back by taking Will’s quorum. Diane goes to talk to Will and he promises that all his crazy is not about Alicia. He says he wants a chance to lead. She says she’ll do whatever Will wants with LA.

Back to the court case, new investigator Robyn catches a glitch in the Drama Camp version that comes right from the cover band’s version. They did steal the song! The Drama Camp people put the stolen version up on Swedish iTunes at first.

Kalinda says she wants to cool it with the policewoman (Jenna) because she’s too close to Damian.
Then a news reporter calls Eli and tells Eli she has a video. She shows Eli video of doctored vote machines and wants to know if he has a comment. Right at that time, Marilyn says the director Peter Bogdanovich is the father, and the actual Bogdanovich actually shows up.

Next week: What will happen to the election? Are you getting annoyed with Damian?